self-deception

Baker wrote the part for her, and Madison returned the favor with a star-making performance, leaning into Ani’s audacity while revealing the fragile façade, the vulnerabilities and self-deception lurking underneath.

Understanding our willful blindness and self-deception that facilitate the abuse of the non-Jews of Palestine will mean giving up the evasive palliative of pseudo-humanistic posturing from groups like J Street.

But what role does this form of self-deception play in how people think about climate change?

After eight years of practice, some Trump supporters are so good at self-deception that they can ignore reality when it's staring them right in the face.

Ms. Coakley said Christians need to overcome their unique “capacity for self-deception” about the historical role of their congregations in supporting racism before they can participate fully in the conversation.